I’m finding the new changes to Readwise Reader a real game changer for me. Being able to buy ebooks through Readwise is huge, and being able to upload epubs to the Reader makes a real difference to me. I scan a lot of books, especially academic out-of-print ones, and I like not having to send them to Amazon in order to have my highlights collected on Readwise.
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“The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation.”
Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
Dear Subscribers: After a lot of thought (some might call it dithering), I’ve decided to leave Substack. (More on my reasons later, but suffice to say I’ve never been entirely comfortable here.) …
“Courage in work does not usually mean fighting wolves. This is unfortunate but survivable. It means asking the question when everyone else is pretending to understand. It means saying the plan is …
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
Sebastian Junger, Tribe
I’ve begun reading The Subversive Art of a Classical Education by Michael S. Rose and Revising Prose by Richard A. Langham, and as a result, after only two chapters in each book, my patience …
“David [Graeber] took joy in his work, and in how that work intersected with actualities on the ground…That joy: maybe this is how everyone should feel about ideas and the ways that they …
In addition to my university teaching, I taught annually in area prisons for about 20 years. There was a time when I planned to retire and attend seminary to continue my prison work. This 6 minute …
If I were starting a theater company today, and I had a limit of 10 people I could hire, here are the positions I’d fill:
1 – dramaturg whose specialty is finding new plays and obscure …